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...U.S.S.R. invaded, its army dug in near the seventh hole, and the course became a battlefield, with mujahedin fighters attacking from the hills above. The Soviets arrested the local pro, Mohammed Afzal Abdul, for being a U.S. spy; his interrogators said it was because golf was such a capitalist, bourgeois sport. After fleeing to Pakistan, Afzal returned to Kabul shortly before the Taliban seized power. He tried to interest a few turbaned Taliban in the game, but he says, "They were only interested in shooting and whipping people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Kabul: Beware of Land Mines On the First Fairway | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...thought she was leading the revolution. Then I thought she sold out to be a capitalist mogul,” said Klein, who advised her thesis on “female consciousness.” “And it turns out she is neither...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Grad Wins Seat on School Committee | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

...dirty-fingernail "experiential learning," some 45 universities and colleges, from Maine's Bowdoin to Minnesota's St. Olaf, have started campus farms. And courses like Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California at Santa Cruz deconstruct relationships between producers and consumers, with such readings as The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture: Farmer as Proletarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: What's Cooking On Campus | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

Mikhail Gorbachev, who funnels the cash to his foundation, has begun to learn about that great capitalist commodity, the personal appearance. But as this list of remarkable fees reportedly paid in 1993 suggests, he'll need to talk about more than geopolitics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRICE OF FAME 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...beatific,” or “God-like,” or “God.” They replenish my table with roasted meats and fine wine. Then, they create a feudal system in which I deny all capitalist bourgeois ascendancy and reinstall the fin de siècle leisure class. Your parents love you, assumedly. After all, you go to Harvard. When they remind others of your greatness, it is an act of love. By denying them, you’re displaying winner’s or victor’s guilt. You?...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FM'S AMATUER ETHICIST: I Care—Really | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

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